Kiotech appoints new head of aquaculture

Kiotech, the supplier of high performance natural feed additives to the aquaculture, commercial fishing and sports fishing markets, has appointed Maarten Jay van Schoonhoven as Head of Aquaculture.

Maarten, who has Dutch and American nationality, joins Kiotech from INVE and Salt Creek where he was sales manager across South East Asia and in the Latin and North America region too. Maarten has also worked with aquaculture supplier Catvis and has a two MSc’s from Wageningen and Cork Universities in both Biology and Aquaculture.

Maarten’s role as head of aquaculture will involve appointing distributors and working with the feed mills and farmers to get Aquatice’s species specific products used and sold into key customers. He will also be overseeing and monitoring customer trials and conducting the product launch process in each country.